The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1912, Page 1

ANDITS ROB TWO CLERKS IN TAXI OF $25,006 FOUR DEAD, 32 HURT IN PENNSYL VANIA WRECK WEATHERSRain To-night of Friday, NIG EDITION. Che “ Circulation Books Open to All." WEATHER—tain To-ntght or Felday. NIG EDITION. SL had do ONE CENT. core 1928, hs Pee remo sven YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, “1912, ~ LIMITED 1S DERAILED, ARS ROLL DOWN BANK FOUR KILLED, 32 HURT Fast Pennsylvania Train, Bound From Chicago to New York, Is Wrecked When Engine Truck Breaks East o/ Altoona, Pa. RUNNING MILE A MINUTE TO MAKE UP LOST TIME Two Women Among the Dead— Steel Coaches Slide Down to Ice-Covered River. | i The Pennsylvania Limited on the Pennsylvania Railroad, east bound, | ad at 11.52 o'clock to-day at Warrior's Ridge, thirty miles east Pa. Railroad officials report four killed and thirty-two in- e dead two were women, The train was bound from Chi- jured, OF cago to*Mew-York and was due here at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon, sports give the number of@ coos GEN, AINSWORTH h poles a and a ¢ t observation car fre * from St. Louis, one and one from Cin- cinnati, a dining car from Pittsburg and a mall car. ntlves were ate tached to the dQ it was running " at close to a mile a minute when &/ Second Ranking Officer of truck broke down on the sesond loco- motive and tore up the trac Army Will Face Court-Mar- tial for Insubordination. Thometal r dead at from the mat ‘The mail car passed over the torn up rails and remained on the track. Every other car In the train, with the excep- tion of the observation car at the ex treme rear, left the roadway and turned | ; over on an embankment alongside the (Special to The Evening Worl.) Juniata River. WASHINGTON, Feb, 15, — Major- It 1s reported that two of the cars) Gen. Frederick W. Ainsworth, adjutant wen to the river, but they do not ap-| general of the ar was this after- pear to have broken through the tee. | noon relieved from duty and ordered 92 OF 104 PASSENGERS IN HOS: | to remain in Washington pending fur- PITAL: FOUR DEAD. {ther action. Ie will soon be ordered were 101 passengers on the|"efore & court martial, The charge There edoge ry sedi erg ts against Gen, Ainsworth is insubordina- Shoopttat tn Huntingdon, Pa., and four| tion, and the specification is that he Scaler have been taken to Alttona.|has written insubordinate letters to Bome of the injured In Tluntingdon will) Secretary of War Stimson and to Gen, probably die, The two women were | Leonard Wood, chief of staff. Dited outright. Gen. Ainsworth ts the second rank-| Late this afternon the Pemnayiventa ing general of the army, Gen. Wood Philadelphia ie Perey being the only one who outranks him, {nsteted that the list of dead w Gen, Henry McCain ts temporarily in ror five. All the victims who ar sives fare said to have bepn| charge of the adjutant general's office. im ne car, which turned completely | The action was taken on the direct 1 9 order of President Taft. Gen. Ains- s locomotive and mall car ran a] worth has been at odds with the army q of a mile past the scene of tl ization plan of Gen. Wood and Wresk before they could be stopped. | geop Another fast train just behind the lim) oii, (Continued on long has existed be- tween the Adjutant-General’s office and) the | —= =| w | | The Story of the Ad-o-meter ‘Ap accurate record is kept of the “Quality” fot ‘ Advertisements so Jay to day in the papers, ond Page.) staff, and the crisis came S'lmson sided with the vought to an Ise last week by inswor ‘etary of War A connestion with the muster and pay Stimson felt that had used language ned his own integrity and well a8 that of other officers ord shows that Gen, Ainsworth that It would be diMoult, If possbote, te any stato- nt that woul tion to any BY TAFT'S ORDER, BRANDT SCANDAL |] WITNESSES HEARD BY GRAND JURY Inspector McLaughlin Among Those Called to Inquiry by Whitman. PUBLIC TO HEAR ALL, Commissioner Hand, for Gov- ernor, Will Investigate at Open Sessions. Only two witnesses were examined by the Grand Jury to-day in the investiga- tion into the case of Folke E. Brandt, the Sohiff burglar. Former Inspector of | Police William W. McLaughlin, who or- dered the investigation into Brandt's fecord, was on hand with @ Grand Jury subpoena, but he w: before that body, t summoned | Instead he epent three-quarters of an hour with District-Attorney Whitmaa| and made a@ lengthy statement of his connection with the case. He refused | to say whether or not he had been in-| structed to report again to-morrow. A special messenger left Albany this) afternoon with the appointment of Rich-| ard L. Hang as apecial commissioner to | look into the Brandt case for Gov. Dix. | The commission of appointment bingy NSLS a | by the Governor recites that, since a pardon was denied to Brandt “it has deen alleged that there exists certain | facts and circumstances susceptible of proof. which do not appear in the reo-| ords and proceedings upon which my | decision was based, but which should have @ material bearing upon the appli- cation for clemency. District-Attorney Wih'tman and Deputy Attorney-General McQuade had a long talk with Brandt this afternoon in Mr. Whitman's office. None of Brandt's law- yers was present. The District-Attorney's investigation before the Grand Jury 1s expected to result in indictments for conspiracy in the Brandt case. The evidence already given by Detective-Lieut, Wooldridge show that the so-called criminal record of Brandt, signed by Wooldridge and submitted to Judge Rosalsky through McLaughlin was an untruthful state- ment, based upon Information furnished to the detective by an interested source. 'DE LANCEY NICOLL REPRESENTS GANS AS COUNSEL. The evidence of McLaughlin ts ex- pected to make pubile the source from which this information as to Brandt's career was obtained, Documentary ev!- dence is In possession of the District- Attorney to show that Howard Gans, counsel for Mortimer L. Schiff and a| relative of the Schiff family, was deeply interested in showing the Court that Brandt's record was such as to war- ' | rant the imposition of a severe sentence. De Lancey Nicoll, who was retained yesterday as counsel for Gans, called on the District-Attorney to-day and was was leaving the Criminal Courts Bulld- ing he was asked !f he had anything to say on behalf of his client, “There !s no need for me to say any- thing,” was his reply. ‘You will have to get any information you are after from the District-Attorney.”” Judgo Rosalsky was highly indignant y when he reached the Criminal Building and was asked | what he had to say about the charge that he ‘had conferred with Jacob L, nit, 1 rd Gans, Police Inspector McLaus da man named Roth- schild at Criterion Club, No, 683 Fifth avenue, on the night of March 81, 1907, while Brandt was in the Tombs awaiting sentence, The Judge had this comment to make: “I wag never present in the Criterion Club or any other place while Mr. Schiff, Mr. Gans or Inspector McLaugh- ln were prese Mr. Ha! appoint night, , although notified of his ¢ by Governor Dix only last reparations this! inmindful of consequences or so wlity” advertise: Keal Estate Ads. Business Opportunity Ads. « h rn i « R ¥ and vat 1S5312 in the Herald ack of knowledge also spol the cool assurance” “Jord The Warld s Lead || er officers, and remarked that “ kinds of ads. pec gearch of capital ‘WORLD ADS. LEAD IN QUAL- ITY AG WELL AS QUANTITY, further facts or arguments here," It also is charged that Gen, Ainsworth in- sinuated improper motives on the part of the ohlef staff i relieving certain recruiting officers, morning for the investigation into the Hivandt affatr, His first step was to arrange for the use of a big room in a the off miss of the Public S HAND'S INVESTIGATION WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, "E expect my al from the Governor to said Mr. Hand, “together with instructions from the Governor as to the lines he wants followed in the investigation, 1 ex- pect also to confer with Attorney- ‘ (Continued on Second Page), commission WHY YOUKILL HN? THAT D0G ONLY HAS; ‘i: abe pee ved Vos saan THE GETAWAY |&T PARK PLACE STATION GONNIPTION FITS! MAN NEAR DEATH purworaicneisen| GLAIMS HS SHOT Bull Had Rabies. A fat man, leading by a chin chain @ bulldog of the dreadnought variety, | ft wended his way to-day along One Hun.|Yames Gilbert, Formerly of dred and Twenty-fift street, between | Seventh and Eighth at suddeniy | Kentucky, Fatally Wounded the dog began to yelp and how! and £ *. e froth at the mouth, Persons nearby be! in Duel, Accuses Himself, gan to walk in the «# The fat man calm}: fron post and tled up women expressed pity for the animal complacently on an unlighted gen, voel at Frankf anuary, 1900. With @ loud how! the dog suddenly | ‘bert said anapped the chain and started cast-| the Hargis ward. In their haste to get off the! tucky feuds for t street, women dashed into bar rooms | vert came to H and stood trembling while the frothin« | dreadnought raced by. The fat man |“ stood chewin jout sense of phy The dog LOUISVILLE, in pr ntu flight. Veliceman lone Hundred and [station drew hi: |chave. ‘The fat chewing upon his cigar, were « t tray astward eral men had been At Seventh avenue the dog yf in c southward, sr g at th : He and causing meck old men |iamp-pasts and do ma JOne old man on crutches wa spired by the howling ter ran half @ block before he : his infirmity, Policeman Daly at this point, drew his revolver, and INTO JUAREZ AND SET e Arrested, eased, stil well in the rear chewing upon his| Crossing Bridge cigar. | but | { | The frothing dreadnought continued its course to a haliway at ww Twenty-t t when Police One Hundred an It turned to and Dal terror was Grogsed ou a wana th % amed for tive 1 t 1 his clgar at we 1% “4 : on hi ey: battalion of the Eig. | who came trom Arison Tuesda ana Were under Lieut, Hy W, lds, Who says he made a mistake. {x SEEEEEneaiareEEiaaE “SPARERIBS AND GRAVY." | A new Comic series, by Georg Manus, author of the eppearing in the Sunday | World ‘unny Bide, ou wan: one wo make you i last, “Let Ge George O'Bo Lt ‘ (the excitement abated, Me- CHLOROFORM MAN TOEND AGONY IN BURNING TRAIN !Doctor Unable to Aid Victim, | y KILLED GOV. GOBEL; chief to Him—Others Die. ,| SAW TWO MEN ON re ost 8nd i 15,—Patally ho dog's yelps and howls grew in v & duel with a bartender | lence hundred men, w4 hare (ecgay, deane ae Ferenc and children hurried up. Many of the | ny ionricke fe from Kentucky, declared he was t nan who fired the shot that Killed Gov. | jose 4 Trunk Ratlway, naclousness by a rmouth to-day, y was @ charred na member of| |.) trainmen met —Jamos | By that! while two of the U.S. TROOPS CROSS BORDER | \ MEXICANS IN A WHIRL = ‘ [into the middle of ot | Then we came back to the war Joined in the chase, The fa: inan was| Infantry Men Who Make Mistake i; in | ween the man's 1 the gr rateroom raver atigus eo er the Americans were released and Shien and ‘tr checks, Bers, “bvcateDulitage’(Wortd) alevtwoe Beskinan ania PRICE ONE hie liill HOLD UP MEN N FAR WALL STREET STEAL $25,000 FROM BANK CLERKS How Bandits Fled With $25,000 From Taxi and Escaped on ‘‘L’’ 1.—Three Robbers Board Taxicab at Trinity Place and Rector ‘Street; Beat Bank Messenger and Escape With $25,000 in $5 and $10 Bills, \2.—Robbers Attack Jeweller Nemet in Store, No. 255 Broome Street, in Broad Day, Fire at Him; One Gets Away, 3.—Robbers Enter the Bank at No. 267 Elizabeth Street Early To- Day, Blow Open the Safe and Get Away Before Police Arrive. Five highwaymen, with the courage to work beiow the police “dead line” of the financial district, held up a taxicab to-day and robbed two bank messengers, who were inside, of $25,000 in bills. The robbery was committed in broad daylight in one of the busiest streets of the city. Three of the thieves boarded the taxicab. The other two, who were acting as aids and lookouts, ran behind it up the street. The Evening World found two eye witnesses of the holdup. They saw the cab stopped, and after the three had forced their way aboard, watched it disappear up the street. For more than half a dozen crowded blocks the robbers rode in the taxicab, two of them beating and choking the messengers so they could make no outery, and the third sitting beside the chauffeur and holding @ revolver against his side. Two policemen were in Church street, along which the taxleab passed, and it muct have gone within a few feet of each of them, The street itself filled with vehicles and pedestrians, but no one knew what was happening until the robbers reached the end of their run and sprang from the taxicab, They ran up the “L” stairs and boarded a northbound train, The two eye-witnesses of the holding up of the taxicab were Henry F. arkwalter, manage d John Huber, bookkceper, In the storehouse of Ratjer & Co. at No. 25 Trinity place. It was In front of this storehouse that the taxi was stopped by the five highwaymen. The storehouse is on the east side of Trintty place, between Exchange alley and Morris street, the street Jthrough which the taxicab turned westward from Broadway. Mr. Huber said to an Evening World reporter: SIDEWALK. “As L came up to the doorway of the storehouse this morning I gaw on the curb just before me a rough looking man, a tough looking person who was dressed in a dark brown sult and wore a gray cap. He had no overcoat on and when a man came up to him with a request for a ight his hand trembled as he held up his cigarette. 1 thought {t was on account ot the cold. I had already passed about thirty feet below him another man, @ young fellow with a brown raglan on. He, too, wore a gray eap. I noticed this man because 1 admired his overcoat; I'd lke to have ome like It “At the doorway Markwalter was standing and I spoke to him about Jthe raglan, He called my attention to two ove standing on opposite corners of Edgar street, which 1s just Also there was a fifth man who 1 in the middle o et, While we were talking a rd along beret Place, it was f 1 inon tt. The taxt his place with the chauffeur, sh the doors. They | pushed the two men Inside and ele ors. In an instant the taxfoab | started off at full speed, the tw eft in the roadway running after tt up Trinity Place, holding to {t until the speed became too fast, “arkwalter and I thought this was a surprising thing, so we went 6ut street a 1 watched the taxicab as It speed aydy. se. “One of the men ‘ot into the cab was the fellow in the brown | raglan coat, and or he men who ran up the street was the tough fellow n sult I had n 1 shivering on the curb. Tam sure that I could identify either of these men, as | had a good opportunity to lool, at ea Mr. Markwaltes eor y 1th ory told by Mr, Huber, and said that he, too, was sure } vuld know two ov three of the men should he ever 1 wry, oF t niost daring this elty has ever known, and n 4 rin poe urre n Church street, juet vy financial di I vers leaving the taxlegh tand Park one of the bustest corners in ity at the time of the th _ TOOK $25,000 IN SMALL BILLS ‘The money was the property of the Bast River National Bank, whieh yon uey 1s at the corner of Broadway and Thing street, It was made up of $15,000